Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 445 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #76 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 546 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #58 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2518 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #339 / 549
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #109 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 11
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